Promoting Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Development
What about this Scenario: Jeff is a student in Miss Erney’s class who lacks the ability to get along with his peers. Jeff’s inappropriate behavior includes taking toys and food from his classmates’ hands. On the playground, students try to avoid Jeff so that he does not take their things. When Miss Erney talked with Jeff about his inappropriate behavior, he refused to take responsibility and blamed his classmates for the problems. Recently, Jeff has withdrawn from the class, and he frequently can be found walking alone on the playground and after school. Miss Erney wants to help Jeff become more socially mature.
1. Discuss the use of sociometric techniques to assess social skills and related problems. How can Miss Erney use information from a sociogram to help Jeff? By using the Sociometric techniques, the teacher can assess how the students interact and who they would rather work with. The Sociogram can help the teacher to pin point what the other students think about Jeff.
2. Discuss the use of social skills training to reduce Jeff’s inappropriate social behaviors. Include the use of direct instruction to increase Jeff’s interpersonal social skills. A way to start teaching Jeff appropriate social behaviors might have to start with telling him about them. This could be something that Miss Erney could use with the whole class. Have a social skills training curriculum. Everyone in the class would learn how to have effective conversations, how to make friends that last, learn how to deal with difficult situations, and how to problem solve. I believe that all students would benefit from this. It would also be a good way for Jeff to see what appropriate behaviors look like. They could do some role playing.
3. Describe three social development activities that may help Jeff with his social problems. Predict some of the possible outcomes of each activity.
Have Jeff pair up with a child who is socially developed for completing a academic task together. The outcome of this is that they would share the success or the failure at the end. If they failed Jeff could see how the other student handles it. This other student would be modeling appropriate behaviors.
Have the students talk about how they feel when something happens in the classroom. Have them express their feelings. The outcome of this situation is that Jeff might understand how the other students feel when he takes things from them. He might also be able to express how he feels too.
Use modeling techniques to teach different social skills. Give praise to the models who model the appropriate social behavior. Jeff might see that the students who show the correct behavior get positive feedback from the teacher, so he might start to use the skills that they were modeling.
4. Instructional games promote positive peer relations and enable the teacher to work on specific social behaviors. Create a game that Miss Erney can use to help promote Jeff’s social development.
5. Discuss the use of life-space interviewing and reality therapy as two interventions to manage Jeff’s behavior and promote his emotional development. Using the life-space interviewing would help Jeff to learn how to deal with a problem that he has. He will be able to stop himself and think about how he would handle the problem. Miss Erney could stop Jeff before he does steals or whatever and then she could listen to why he thinks he needs to steal something. Have him try to figure out a better way to handle the situation. With reality therapy Jeff is held responsible for his actions he need to make sure that what he does is appropriate. He will not be off the hook for something that he did. He will have to take responsibility for it. He will need to have a sound reason that he needed what he took. He will need to find a way to solve the problem by himself.
from - Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)
Promoting Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Development
What about this Scenario:
Jeff is a student in Miss Erney’s class who lacks the ability to get along with his peers. Jeff’s inappropriate behavior includes taking toys and food from his classmates’ hands. On the playground, students try to avoid Jeff so that he does not take their things. When Miss Erney talked with Jeff about his inappropriate behavior, he refused to take responsibility and blamed his classmates for the problems. Recently, Jeff has withdrawn from the class, and he frequently can be found walking alone on the playground and after school. Miss Erney wants to help Jeff become more socially mature.
1. Discuss the use of sociometric techniques to assess social skills and related problems. How can Miss Erney use information from a sociogram to help Jeff? By using the Sociometric techniques, the teacher can assess how the students interact and who they would rather work with. The Sociogram can help the teacher to pin point what the other students think about Jeff.
2. Discuss the use of social skills training to reduce Jeff’s inappropriate social behaviors. Include the use of direct instruction to increase Jeff’s interpersonal social skills. A way to start teaching Jeff appropriate social behaviors might have to start with telling him about them. This could be something that Miss Erney could use with the whole class. Have a social skills training curriculum. Everyone in the class would learn how to have effective conversations, how to make friends that last, learn how to deal with difficult situations, and how to problem solve. I believe that all students would benefit from this. It would also be a good way for Jeff to see what appropriate behaviors look like. They could do some role playing.
3. Describe three social development activities that may help Jeff with his social problems. Predict some of the possible outcomes of each activity.
4. Instructional games promote positive peer relations and enable the teacher to work on specific social behaviors. Create a game that Miss Erney can use to help promote Jeff’s social development.
5. Discuss the use of life-space interviewing and reality therapy as two interventions to manage Jeff’s behavior and promote his emotional development.
Using the life-space interviewing would help Jeff to learn how to deal with a problem that he has. He will be able to stop himself and think about how he would handle the problem. Miss Erney could stop Jeff before he does steals or whatever and then she could listen to why he thinks he needs to steal something. Have him try to figure out a better way to handle the situation. With reality therapy Jeff is held responsible for his actions he need to make sure that what he does is appropriate. He will not be off the hook for something that he did. He will have to take responsibility for it. He will need to have a sound reason that he needed what he took. He will need to find a way to solve the problem by himself.
from - Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)